Notable Quotes

MY family will never be the same. – Part of the message that Leopold Shaimemanya delivered in the High Court, in the run-up to the sentencing of his son-in-law Lazarus Shaduka who is convicted in connection with the way his daughter Selma Shaimemanya’s life was ended at the age of 33.

OUR figures are correct on the documents leaving Namibia but when the animals arrive in South Africa, details do not tally. – Livestock Producers Association president Kay-Dieter Rumpf said the export documents accompanying livestock leaving Namibia are correct.

I am then a progressive puppet. Many of the people who say I have been a puppet., they have been puppets. – President Hifikepunye Pohamba reiterated at the Heroes’ Day commemoration held at Luderitz that he is not a marionette of founding President Sam Nujoma.

SHE refused to come, so I pulled her hand, and then she hit me. I left the bar then. – Tommas Nawaseb who received a five-year prison sentence in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court for shooting his girlfriend in the chest stated.

From the history books
Many of u look back with nostalgia and pride, and sometimes even a feeling of astonishment, that we foiled those who never believed we would successfully make the transition from troubled time to even live to see The Namibian put down deep and durable roots in Namibian soil. – Gwen Lister, Editor of The Namibian in the paper’s free 25th anniversary magazine. The paper turned 25 today.

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